British Scientist Francis Crick’s Nobel Prize sold for 2.27m US Dollar at the Auction

British
scientist Francis Crick’s Nobel Prize was sold for 2.27m US dollar at
the auction in New York. Francis Crick won the Nobel Prize for
discovery of DNA. The Nobel Prize was bought by CEO of a Shanghai-based
biomedical firm, Jack Wang.

Francis
Crick won the Nobel Prize for discovery of DNA in 1962. His discovery
of structure of DNA molecule made it possible to analyse the
functioning of the human beings.

In
yet another auction, the letter written by Francis Crick was sold for
5.3m US dollar. In this letter, Crick described his discovery of double
helix shape of DNA to his 12-year old son.

The
sales will be beneficial from scientific research point of view. Some
part of the proceeds of auction will help in funding the medical
research institute in London which is named in the honour of Crick.

Crick
had discovered structure of DNA with two more scientists, Maurice
Wilkins and James Watson. All these scientists had won the Nobel Prize
for this discovery.

This is just the second time that any Nobel medal was sold in a public auction.